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carguyjohn350

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My HTC Evo 4G which is rooted and running the MikG rom got stuck in a boot loop, so I tried to do a nandroid restore and its been running for like two hours. Its a screen that says htc and like a little sideways triangle and a rounded square and then another sideways triangle. It has the scrolling dots and theyre moving, but this seems to be taking a loooong time. Advice or thoughts?

Thanks.
 
I have no idea why it didn't work. I ended up just doing a fresh install of the mik rom and starting over. Maybe I am doing the nandroid wrong? I don't know. Now Im afraid to trust nandroid and I don't really want to try to restore it needlessly just to see if it works.
 
I don't recall all the options I checked when I made the back up. I followed the guide from here I think. I saved the nandroid to my hard drive, heres whats in the folder. When I put it back on the card and went into recovery and tried to restore, it sees each of the files separately and if you try to select them to restore it cant do it. Maybe Im just being a total n00b.
 

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carguyjohn350 said:
I don't recall all the options I checked when I made the back up. I followed the guide from here I think. I saved the nandroid to my hard drive, heres whats in the folder. When I put it back on the card and went into recovery and tried to restore, it sees each of the files separately and if you try to select them to restore it cant do it. Maybe Im just being a total n00b.
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the nandroid backup is actually the entire folder.your nandroid backup is named BCDRS-20130324-0213. this is not just a folder. everything within is your nandroid backup. you can also rename it as well if it helps you to remember what it is. just make sure not use any weird symbols like "_" or "*" in the name.

your screenshot is what is inside your nandroid backup.

and as far as what to backup....only do the first three that is already selected. you should have at least one nandroid backup saved that has your wimax keys backed up as there is a very small chance you can loose them while flashing. and once they are gone, they are gone for good, unless you have a nandroid backup.
 
That's what I thought. So I put the whole folder on my card and went into recovery and selected restore and selected the folder and rather than start restoring, it opens the folder and shows me these files on my phone in recovery. What am I doing wrong?
 
carguyjohn350 said:
That's what I thought. So I put the whole folder on my card and went into recovery and selected restore and selected the folder and rather than start restoring, it opens the folder and shows me these files on my phone in recovery. What am I doing wrong?
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Hmmmmmm something is missing then. I'm away from my Evo so I can't verify yet' unless someone else can pitch in.
 
you don't have any spaces in the name do you?

Also to help me understand a bit did you put the nandroid over to your hard drive and then place it back on your card? If so you could have a corrupt upload of the nandroid and that is why its not restoring.
 
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